Similar in some ways to such books as Bach’s “Jonathan Livingston Seagull,” Redfield’s “The Celestine Prophecy,” Wouk’s “Don’t Stop the Carnival,” and Moody’s books about the “other side,” this book presents a series of allegorical quests for a more evolved way of living.

  The author drank heavily for over thirty years, and came to these discoveries only after losing his wife because of his addiction.